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Draco continued to question as if he were a serpent editing a trap.

"This question, which is irrelevant to today's debate, I refuse to answer!"

Hermione didn't know why Draco was asking the question, but the girl's sixth sense told her that Draco definitely wasn't being nice.

"If you don't want to answer it, then I'll answer it for you.

You're just trying so hard to learn more about yourself and become a better person!

The same is true for peeking into the future, we just want to keep getting better.

From the moment we are born, humans are constantly learning and improving, it's a nature rooted in our blood and soul!

You can call it greed, you can call it lust, you can call it ambition, but you have to admit that this is the source of the motivation that keeps mankind progressing all the time!

If that wasn't the case, why were we at Hogwarts? Why do you need to learn about magic year after year? Why did you come to this debate today?

That's true for coming to Hogwarts, that's true for studying with the professors and teachers, and that's true for peering into destiny and the future!

At the end of the day, a glimpse into the future is just a way to allow us to go faster and better on our way to excellence!"

"Pop, pop, pop..."

The Slytherin's Head of Academy table was the first to applaud, followed by the same applause from the Ravenclaw's side of the table. After all, Draco Malfoy's words made sense, and it was Gryffindor who had voted out Ravenclaw before, so of course now they were going to support the one Slytherin.

Harry and Ron, as well as a bunch of Gryffindor lions, had their eyes on Hermione. It was up to Hermione to turn the tide.

Hermione felt the pressure and exhaled deeply, looking at Draco as calmly as she could.

"I don't deny what you've said, and it's true that peering into the future can help you keep getting better. But what makes the future of mankind exciting is precisely that it is constantly full of unpredictable surprises!

Having expectations for the future only when there are unknown surprises.

The expectation that tomorrow's breakfast will not be one's favorite food.

Looking forward to whether or not they will earn college points for their college tomorrow.

Expecting to see whoever you want to see tomorrow.

.........

It is this anticipation that makes up our exciting and interesting future, that makes our unknown future an indelible past, that makes us live as one! A man with human joys and sorrows! Not the high, seeing-it-all, cold-hearted God!"

"Good for Hermione!"

"Swoosh swoosh~~"

"Pop, pop, pop..."

The praise, the whistles, the clapping, all the Gryffindor lions were cheering for Hermione!

Even a few of the professors on the professor's table as well as Dumbledore nodded their heads slightly, as if they were agreeing with what Hermione was saying.

But Draco didn't panic at all, instead smiling winningly.

"Yes, I agree with what you said too! But the future isn't set in stone! We glimpse destiny, change the future, and naturally generate a new future! The new future is again new unknowns and surprises for us!

The destinies we glimpse will always be the destinies of the past!

Our future is still unknown, and even more exciting futures are likely to be created as we become stronger!

And all we have to do is change ourselves to grow better in the future that we keep peeking into, so that we can be more certain of an even more unknowable future!

Step by step to supremacy in the changing and unchanging future! Walk into the future you want!

This, is what I think a glimpse into the future brings!"

As Draco's last words trailed off, Hermione sat down in a bit of a trance. It had come to this, and she couldn't think of anything else she could use to refute Draco's words.

No one from the Gryffindor trio had stood up to speak after Draco had finished speaking. Harry and Ron were the ones who didn't know what else to say and could only look at Hermione. Hermione, however, was the one who couldn't think of anything else to say and her eyebrows were furrowed together.

"Gryffindor, do you have anything else you can say to refute Draco's point?"

Gurrenza knocked on the table to get everyone back to quiet, then looked at the Gryffindor trio.

Hermione looked at Harry and Ron and shook her head slightly, eventually Harry stood up.

"Professor Gurrenza, we have no other point to continue to refute what Draco said. But we would like to ask Draco how he would argue his point if he were in our position?"

Oh, it's a little unconvinced that you've drawn this point of view ah. Gurrenza looked over at Draco with interest to see how he would answer.

"Draco, Harry's question, you can choose to answer or not answer it, and the outcome will not affect the fact that you won this debate."

"The point I made, I can naturally answer. My answer is that only the weak care about the future they see, the strong only go on to create the future they want! The so-called tragedy is nothing more than your strength at the time not being able to better cope with the changes that come, as long as you are strong enough, so strong that even if the ending is tragic, you can still rely on your own strength to force the change! What does it matter if you see or don't see such a future?

The future of the truly strong was never in their hands alone, not in the destiny they glimpsed! They didn't become strong by peeking into fate, they became strong enough to ignore it!"

A standard Slytherin reply, but there was no doubt the reply was fine.

On the professor's table, Dumbledore frowned slightly, McGonagall looked disapproving, Snape nodded slightly, Flivver was thoughtful, and Pomona didn't quite agree.

But what did any of this have to do with Gurrenza, he thought the answer was fine, he was the organizer after all.

"Although the answer is a bit extreme, there is no doubt that I agree with this reply.

I declare that the winners of this debate are - Slytherin Academy - Draco, Pansy, and Blaise!"

"Wow, good for Draco!"

"Slytherin! Slytherin! Slytherin!"

"Hahaha, we won!!!"

........

Some people were happy, some were sad, and the entire Slytherin house was cheering, while Gryffindor was glum and downbeat. The other two houses, the mood was not very high either.

"Professor Gurrenza, may I ask you two questions?"

Draco's voice, amidst the cheers, carried clearly from the field to Gullen's ears, to the professors and students present.

"Oh, Draco, what did you want to ask?"

"I was wondering what you think of the Department of Prophecy, Professor?"

Draco still maintained his nobleman's manners, but the tone of his words was serious.

"The Department of Prophecy ah, of the eight departments of the arcane.